Date: 1747
"What Place can banish Love / From the subjected Mind."
preview | full record— Lennox, née Ramsay, (Barbara) Charlotte (1730/1?-1804)
Date: 1755
"Oh let me now thy tender Mercy find, / With thy free Grace illuminate my Mind, / Let me no more the Slave of Passion be, / But turn my wand'ring Thoughts to Heav'n and thee."
preview | full record— Masters, Mary (1694-1771)
Date: 1762
"Yet, when by Fancy’s Influence unconfin’d, / Does Wisdom give my throbbing Bosom Laws? / Do calmer Thoughts compose my ruffled Mind?"
preview | full record— Carter, Elizabeth (1717-1806)
Date: 1762
"While Night in solemn Shade invests the Pole, / And calm Reflexion soothes the pensive Soul; / While Reason undisturb'd asserts her Sway, / And Life’s deceitful Colours fade away: / To Thee! all-conscious Presence! I devote / This peaceful Interval of sober Thought."
preview | full record— Carter, Elizabeth (1717-1806)
Date: 1762
"But ah! how oft' my lawless Passions rove, / And break those awful Precepts I approve!"
preview | full record— Carter, Elizabeth (1717-1806)
Date: 1762
"All pow’rful Grace, exert thy gentle Sway, / And teach my rebel Passions to obey: / Lest lurking Folly with insidious Art / Regain my volatile inconstant Heart."
preview | full record— Carter, Elizabeth (1717-1806)
Date: 1773
"O Wisdom! if thy soft controul / Can soothe the sickness of the soul, / Can bid the warring passions cease, / And breathe the calm of tender peace;-- / Wisdom! I bless thy gentle sway, / And ever, ever will obey."
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)
Date: 1773
"In full perfection all thy works are wrought, / And thine the sceptre o'er the realms of thought."
preview | full record— Wheatley, Phillis (c.1753–1784)
Date: 1773
"Before thy throne the subject-passions bow, / Of subject-passions sov'reign ruler Thou, / At thy command joy rushes on the heart, / And through the glowing veins the spirits dart."
preview | full record— Wheatley, Phillis (c.1753–1784)
Date: 1773
"But if thou com'st with frown austere / To nurse the brood of care and fear; / To bid our sweetest passions die, / And leave us in their room a sigh; / Or if thine aspect stern have power / To wither each poor transient flower, / That cheers the pilgrimage of woe, / And dry the springs whence ho...
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)